ged
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English gedde, from Old Norse gedda (“pike”), cognate with Icelandic gedda (“pike”), Danish gedde (“pike”).
Noun edit
ged (plural geds)
- (UK, dialect or heraldry) The pike or luce.
- (Scotland) A greedy person
- 1808, John Jamieson, A Dictionary of the Scottish Language:
- He's a perfect ged for silver.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ged c (singular definite geden, plural indefinite geder)
- goat (animal)
Inflection edit
Scottish Gaelic edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
According to Ó Maolalaigh, from delenition of early modern (originally copular) gidh, giodh before dentals (< eg. giodh do-bheir ‘though he gives’) or from early modern gé do before compound verbs in do- (gé do-ní ‘though he does’) or in the past tense and conditional mood (eg. gé do chumadar ‘although they made’, gé do bheannaigh ‘though he blessed’, ge d’fhosgail ‘though he opened’).[1] MacBain explains it as a contraction of ge + ta.[2] Ultimately from Old Irish cía (“though”) or cid (“though … is”).
Conjunction edit
ged
- although, though
- Cha toil leis an leabhar, ged a bha e còrdadh ri a bhean gu dearbh.
- He doesn't like the book, although his wife really enjoyed it.
- Thiginn a steach a rithist ged a chuirteadh a mach mi.
- I would come in again though I were put out.
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
- gar an (“although not”)
References edit
- ^ R. Ó Maolalaigh (2023), “An Old Gaelic conjunction rediscovered: Old Gaelic ceni, Scottish Gaelic gar an and related concessive conjunctions in Gaelic”, in North American Journal of Celtic Studies, volume 7, issue 1, , pages 1-87
- ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “ged”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 192
Volapük edit
Noun edit
ged (nominative plural geds)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
See also edit
viet | ged | bläg |
red | rojan; braun | yelov |
grün | ||
blöv | ||
violät | purpur | redül |